He arrived in office with the political capital and following to do good for the U.S., and instead has focused on doing good for himself.
Faced with challenges, he reacts personally rather than professionially.
In matters of state, he has repeatedly stumbled and inflicted forseeable damage on our relations with close allies, while handing enemies and ambivalent states victory after victory, encouraging those who would align against the U.S. to become more daring and provocative.
He has acted as a spoiled child would act when given power -- arrogantly, focusing on immediate personal gratification without consideration for long-term consequences.
The rule of law has become increasingly irrelevant -- ruling elites engage in scandalous conduct without fear of punishment or censure, enriching themselves and securing their seats at the expense of the U.S. citizen and taxpayer, and 0 condones, and even leads, the behavior while using puffery and feigned indignation to mask his true allegiances.
What seems to be more and more a leading question is which major crisis will threaten the survival of the republic first -- one from outside our borders, or one from within.
And will the one from within be conducted peacefully, or . . .
“John Boehner called the passage of this bill Armageddon,” “You had others who said this is the end of freedom as we know it,” he continued. “So after I signed the bill, I looked around.” I looked up at the sky to see if asteroids were coming,” Mr. Obama said. I looked at the ground to see if cracks had opened up in the earth.
yes, he gives childish speeches and behaves like a punk kid. Don't forget about the ever present 'middle-finger' for anyone he doesn't like or disagrees with. It is just childishness and petulance in the way he conducts himself.